Friday, March 4, 2016

Black Lives Matter Activist Running For Mayor Of Baltimore

DeRay McKesson, a civil rights activist and the Twitter
Identity of the Black Lives Matter movement, is running for mayor of Baltimore.
He is one of 13 candidates in the city’s Democratic Primary. Come April, the
winner will replace retiring mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (Republicans are never elected mayor of Baltimore).
During last year’s extensive rioting, Mayor Rawlings-Blake actually insisted
that the violent mobs assaulting her city be given “space to destroy.”

Ironically,
these leftist, race-obsessed leaders are impeccably and unceasingly tolerant of
the progressive attitudes and policies that have caused their city’s decades-long slide into destitution and
depravity, but rigidly intolerant of the conservative ones that could save
them.

America’s
own recent history is flush with numerous examples of conservative policies and
values helping to revitalize big cities. Look at New York prior to Rudy
Guliani. It was a cesspool of drugs, graffiti and homicide. At the end of his
mayoral tenure it was one of the safest and cleanest big cities in the nation.

There
is one common denominator amongst Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Gary
(Indiana), East St. Louis, etc., etc. They have all been run by progressives
for 30 to 40 consecutive years or more.

But who
are we to say that the ethos of
victimization, polarization, envy, lack
of accountability and work ethic, dissolution of the family, mocking of
religion and traditional values, punishment of success and reward of sloth, and demonization of businesses that provide jobs
and the tax base for all these cities… won’t suddenly start working great?! It could happen, couldn’t it?

Daily Trivia Quiz Answer

Today's Answer: Andrew Jackson. ("Poll" got so worked up before the service he apparently had to be removed from the premises, as he was cussing long and loud).

Q) What words appear on the front of the penny, nickel, dime and quarter, alongside the likeness of presidents?

A) "Liberty" and "In God We Trust"

An Ode To Life

Appreciate all you have, as it- and you- will soon be gone. Leave no heartfelt words unspoken, no sweet gesture incomplete, no act of love undone. Love your spouse with passion and abandon, your kids with patience and understanding but also a firm guidance. Love also the truth, no matter how hard. If pursued by enough people with enough courage, it really will set us free.

And don't forget, we didn't ask to be born. We didn't create ourselves. We are not gods. There is a higher power.

Fireworks of the Mind

Write It Up

Whence Shall Come Another?

True Then, True Now

"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."- Winston Churchill

Time Well Wasted

The power lies within your hands To do with what you may But the hourglass is filled with sands Of endless yesterdays